META MARIA (Saueressig) MUCHOW 1898-1985

REINCKE, SAUERESSIG, MUCHOW, MEYER, BRILE, HELM, GRABAR, WARNER, GENTRY, MCCABE, KUHSE, APPEL

Posted By: Mary Durr (email)
Date: 7/13/2005 at 14:02:15

Meta Muchow

Funeral services for Meta Muchow were held Friday, January 25, 1985 at 10:30 a.m. at the Schutte Funeral Home in Postville. The Rev. Julius L. Peterson officiated. Burial was in the Postville Cemetery.

Meta Maria Frieda Muchow, daughter of John and Anna (Reincke) Saueressig, was born January 24, 1898 at Postville, IA. She died January 22, 1985 at the St. Francis Nursing Home, LaCrosse, WI. She was baptizied April 24, 1898 at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Postville and confirmed there on March 31, 1912. She attended school in the Postville area.

They have lived in the Postville area, Decorah and for the past 47 years, Meta has lived in LaCrosse, WI.

She is preceded in death by her parents, a brother, Edwin Saueressig and three sisters, Celia (Mrs. Enos Muchow) and Helen and Alma Saueressig.

Surviving are a son, Dorian of Greenwood, MS and a daughter, Dolores (Mrs. Clarence Meyer) of Long Beach, CA, nine grandchildren, Darlene Brile, Mary Jane Helm, Charles Grabar, George Grabar and Joice Warner, Vickie Gentry, Nancy McCabe and Don and Walter Muchow; 17** great grandchildren, 2 great-great grandchildren, a brother, Harold Saueressig of Waukon and 2 sisters, Elta Kuhse and Florence (Mrs. Otto Appel), both of Postville.

** this number may not be 17. The print on the paper is funny and you can't quite tell what it is.

Postville Herald newspaper clipping from my mother's obituary collection.

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